Strange Brew by John Deering for November 03, 2018

Maybe some loan-shark charges as well. I heard there was pretty high interest in the books she lent out.

I’ve got a set of encyclopedias I’ll give her.

Let’s keep this one hushed up. We don’t want it noised around the neighborhood.

Library was a front , she was keeping the books the Mob.

Dust jackets weren’t her only protection racket.

Cook Books and Cooked Books are two different things.

She said it was rubbish to believe the “trashy” books are connected to the mafia.

Binford’s Book Cooker 2000 accounting software as seen on ‘Home Improvement’.

Reminds me of a comic I saw waybackinthewayback, where an affronted librarian tells a mobster-looking customer: “Please address me as ‘librarian,’ sir. I am NOT a ‘bookie’!”